Mighty Fine Reviews

We're left with something akin to a Lifetime movie, as there are a number of interesting possibilities, which could have added complexity and depth to the film, that are never fleshed out.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Debbie Goodstein-Rosenfeld's film seems oddly anemic when it deals with anyone but Chazz Palminteri's Joe.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The mood is generally melodramatic and ends as mushy, aided by the soft-focus cinematography that drenches it all in melancholic nostalgia.

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Director Debbie Goodstein-Rosenfeld wraps so much narrative string around this slight ball it unravels messily, despite nice work from the reliable Palminteri.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Even a clever title can't galvanize this lightweight family drama.

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A somewhat drab and unimaginative telling further dents this dull melodrama of already rather limited psychological insights, and pat conclusions and catharses.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

A well-meaning but unstable hand at the tiller, and a propensity for charting plot points, rather than a clear narrative destination.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Too many directions can be as much of a liability for a movie as too few, and "Mighty Fine" heads in all of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Its most distinctive aspect, unfortunately, is the hilarious sight of MacDowell struggling to speak German-accented English.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Mighty Fine," unfortunately, isn't.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Hard to imagine how a movie can manage to be so underdeveloped yet so depressing at the same time, but "Mighty Fine" manages to pull it off.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Mighty bad.

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If you can overlook Andie MacDowell's Mitteleuropa accent as a Jewish Holocaust survivor (I know: big if), the cinematic roman a clef "Mighty Fine" has some quiet charms.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Mighty Fine is an incisive portrait of an insecure, manic-depressive tyrant that Mr. Palminteri makes entirely believable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A semi-autobiographical story of a man's over-reaching, which leads him to consider violent options in dealing with himself and his family.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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